On the relaxation of single hard-sphere gases

DOI10.1063/1.857762zbMath0699.76088OpenAlexW1526219323MaRDI QIDQ3478169

Georg Kügerl, Ferdinand Schürrer

Publication date: 1990

Published in: Physics of Fluids A: Fluid Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.857762

zbMATH Keywords

equilibriumdistribution functioninitial conditionsnonlinear Boltzmann equationhigh-energy tailLaguerre moment methodMaxwellization of a spatially uniform hard- sphere gas

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05) Kinetic theory of gases in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B40)

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